Paul Theroux
Autore di Bazar express : in treno attraverso l'Asia
Sull'Autore
Paul Edward Theroux was born on April 10, 1941 in Medford, Massachusetts and is an acclaimed travel writer. After attending the University of Massachusetts Amherst he joined the Peace Corps and taught in Malawi from 1963 to 1965. He also taught in Uganda at Makerere University and in Singapore at mostra altro the University of Singapore. Although Theroux has also written travel books in general and about various modes of transport, his name is synonymous with the literature of train travel. Theroux's 1975 best-seller, The Great Railway Bazaar, takes the reader through Asia, while his second book about train travel, The Old Patagonian Express (1979), describes his trip from Boston to the tip of South America. His third contribution to the railway travel genre, Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China, won the Thomas Cook Prize for best literary travel book in 1989. His literary output also includes novels, books for children, short stories, articles, and poetry. His novels include Picture Palace (1978), which won the Whitbread Award and The Mosquito Coast (1981), which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Theroux is a fellow of both the British Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Geographic Society. His title Lower River made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2012. Currently his 2015 book, Deep South , is a bestseller. (Bowker Author Biography) Paul Theroux is the distinguished author of numerous award-winning books, including "The Mosquito Coast," "Kowloon Tong," & "Half Moon Street." (Publisher Provided) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Opere di Paul Theroux
The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain (1983) 1,572 copie, 30 recensioni
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar (2008) 1,067 copie, 34 recensioni
Riding the Rails with Paul Theroux: The Great Railway Bazaar, The Old Patagonian Express, and Ghost Train to the… (2018) 22 copie
The Cold World 10 copie
Action 3 copie
Malawi: Faces of a Quiet Land 2 copie
China Passage 1 copia
Leper Colony 1 copia
A Game of Dice 1 copia
The Furies 1 copia
By Train Across India 1 copia
Na równinie węży 1 copia
'Hard lives, hard novels: ... a 'hack with an existential streak'' in TLS 5476, 14 March 2008 1 copia
Vakantieverhalen — Collaboratore — 1 copia
The Widow 1 copia
The Wicked Coast 1 copia
VolPension 1 copia
Opere correlate
Il peggior viaggio del mondo: la spedizione antartica di Scott nella straordinaria testimonianza di un sopravvissuto (1922) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 1,923 copie, 55 recensioni
Era meglio se stavo a casa! : i grandi scrittori raccontanoi loro peggiori viaggi (1994) — Collaboratore — 181 copie, 5 recensioni
It Occurs to Me That I Am America: New Stories and Art (2018) — Collaboratore — 75 copie, 1 recensione
Who's Writing This? Notations on the Authorial I, with Self-Portraits {not Antæus} (1995) — Collaboratore — 72 copie
Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts (2012) — Collaboratore — 68 copie, 4 recensioni
100 Journeys for the Spirit: Sacred, Inspiring, Mysterious, Enlightening (2010) — Collaboratore — 56 copie
Literary Traveller: An Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction (1994) — Collaboratore — 54 copie, 1 recensione
Cape Cod Stories: Tales from Cape Cod, Nantucket, and Martha's Vineyard (1996) — Collaboratore — 52 copie, 5 recensioni
Op reis met... — Collaboratore — 6 copie
Mexico reisverhalen — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Theroux, Paul
- Data di nascita
- 1941
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Medford, Massachusetts, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA
London, England, UK
Malawi
Uganda
Singapore
Dorset, England, UK (mostra tutto 7)
Hawaii, USA - Istruzione
- University of Massachusetts
- Relazioni
- Theroux, Marcel (son)
Theroux, Louis (son)
Theroux, Alexander (brother)
Theroux, Peter (brother)
Theroux, Phyllis (sister-in-law)
Theroux, Justin (nephew) (mostra tutto 7)
Naipaul, V.S. (friend) - Organizzazioni
- University of Singapore
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1984) - Premi e riconoscimenti
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1977)
Utenti
Discussioni
Found: Short story about a village who has no written records but a kid chronicler in Name that Book (Marzo 2022)
Recensioni
Liste
Allie's Wishlist (1)
Folio Society (1)
A Novel Cure (1)
Read These Too (1)
Central America (1)
Tour of Africa (2)
Asia (2)
Fiction For Men (1)
Franklit (1)
1980s (1)
Page Turners (1)
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 115
- Opere correlate
- 69
- Utenti
- 29,955
- Popolarità
- #671
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 612
- ISBN
- 1,049
- Lingue
- 21
- Preferito da
- 91
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